Quotes from Henry Ford

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

You are not "saving" when you prevent yourself from becoming more productive.

Her ?ey mümkündür...'?nanç , ümit edilen ?eylerin esas? , görülmeyen ?eylerin delilidir

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited. And all of this can always be done.

There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. It is not possible to learn from books how everything is made—and a real mechanic ought to know how nearly everything is made. Machines are to a mechanic what books are to a writer. He gets ideas from them, and if he has any brains he will apply those ideas.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

I'm looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not knowing what cannot be done.

Politics in the true sense, have to do with the prosperity, peace and security of the people.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

B?t k? ai d?ng h?c t?p ??u già, dù anh ta ? tu?i hai m??i hay tám m??i.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

Che tu creda di farcela o no, hai comunque ragione.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

I think it should not be otherwise in industry. The men are there to get the greatest possible amount of work done and to receive the highest possible pay. If each man were permitted to act in his own way, production would suffer and therefore pay would suffer. Any one who does not like to work in our way may always leave.

Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.

More men are beaten than fail. It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or "pull," but just plain gristle and bone.

In March, 1902, I resigned, determined never again to put myself under orders. The Detroit Automobile Company later became the Cadillac Company under the ownership of the Lelands, who

Let every American become steeled against coddling. Americans ought to resent coddling. It is a drug. Stand up and stand out; let weaklings take charity.

Will a billion dollars solve that sort of trouble? No, a billion dollars will only make the difficulty one billion dollars worse.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Khi m?i th? d??ng nh? ?i ng??c ch?ng l?i b?n, hãy nh? r?ng máy bay c?t cánh ng??c chi?u gió, ch? không ph?i cùng chi?u.

Khi m?i th? d??ng nh? ??u ch?ng l?i b?n, hãy nh? r?ng máy bay c?t cánh ng??c gió, không ph?i theo chi?u gió.